Changing Tides: GM Beats Toyota In June Sales

Not really. Look at the headlines on the home page. There's plenty of pain to go around for almost all the automakers.

— 222max (View Profile)

Posted on 7/1/2008 5:53:19 PM | | Votes: 4   

Yet in the Lexus post it appears he isnt aware of that.

— 0to60 (View Profile)

Posted on 7/1/2008 7:07:38 PM | | Votes: 1   

lol
amazing that 001 & 009 can work together

— WorldofLuxury (View Profile)

Posted on 7/1/2008 7:58:49 PM | | Votes: 1   

When you're GM and your cars need to be replaced every 3 years, how hard is it to outsell a company whose cars last for 10-20 years?

— droptop (View Profile)

Posted on 7/1/2008 11:19:33 PM | | Votes: 1   

001 and 009 work together quite nicely BTW.

— Agent009 (View Profile)

Posted on 7/2/2008 8:41:54 AM | | Votes: 2   

GM has so many brands, that is why they outsell everyone. If you only counted chevrolet it wouldn't even be close to toyota or anyone else. what do they have, 7 different brands 8 if you counted saab. Cadillac, Buick, GMC, Hummer, Saturn, Chevrolet, Pontiac. With that many brands they ought to outsell everything else, even though they are all rebadges of eachother.

— 85bmw745i (View Profile)

Posted on 7/1/2008 7:18:23 PM | | Votes: 1   

Not to mention all of the fleet sales they have from all 7 of those brands.

— 85bmw745i (View Profile)

Posted on 7/1/2008 7:18:52 PM | | Votes: -2   

85bmw745i, never thought of it like that, but you are right!

— 0to60 (View Profile)

Posted on 7/1/2008 9:12:37 PM | | Votes: -1   

It is a shame that a company has a good month and yet people can't recognize that and just tries to kick the dog when it is down. Grow up people GM had a good month just acknowledge that.

— 91z4me (View Profile)

Posted on 7/1/2008 11:39:10 PM | | Votes: 1   

so, a "good month" for gm is one where its sales shrinkage is "only 18%" but toyota's is 21%? there is NOTHING to celebrate. for anyone.

— ChicaneShooter (View Profile)

Posted on 7/2/2008 6:04:10 AM | | Votes: 0   

A good month is you shrinking less than your nearest competitor. If you haven't notice the whole market is dropping like a rock not just GM, Ford, or Chrysler.

— 91z4me (View Profile)

Posted on 7/2/2008 1:10:27 PM | | Votes: 1   

for the last generation, the Lexus ES was designed and brought to market first. then the camry followed.

the ES is the HIGHEST QUALITY CAR you can get for the money.
the camry v6 is essentially a DE-CONTENTED lexus ES; the 4 a lower cost version. both are extraordinary BARGAINS for the price.

which partly explains the camry being the BEST SELLING SEDAN for years.

(who CARES if the auto rags have written up the new malibu as if it's 'better' than the camry. NO ONE will try to relate it to a caddy. look at the prices of 4-7 yr.-old malibus vs. camrys. the latter is JUSTIFIABLY related to lexus ESs. in both REALITY and in people's perceptions.)

— ChicaneShooter (View Profile)

Posted on 7/5/2008 3:22:27 AM | | Votes: 0   

foolish pride, but GM is making some good cars now I must say.

— 85bmw745i (View Profile)

Posted on 7/1/2008 7:19:21 PM | | Votes: 2   

But still the Japanese and the German brands are a lot better.

— MercedesBenz00Z (View Profile)

Posted on 7/1/2008 11:26:43 PM | | Votes: 0   

toyota beat out gm in total sales WORLD WIDE last year. if/when it beats gm in the US as well, that would really be news. which ALMOST happened.

and likely will; it being just a matter of time.

— ChicaneShooter (View Profile)

Posted on 7/2/2008 5:52:24 AM | | Votes: -1   

Actually I think Toyota beat GM in production, not sales.

— 91z4me (View Profile)

Posted on 7/2/2008 1:11:41 PM | | Votes: 1   

sales is ROUGHLY equal to production. when the figures don't match, you have a huge inventory of unsold cars. no mass marketer has a better control of inventory than toyota, so i presume their stocks of cars built but not sold, was small to non-existent. (over a year. month to month, of course it varies.)

i think GM's claim of 2007 total sales also had to be reduced, as they were claiming sales from subsidiaries which they owned less than 50% of.

— ChicaneShooter (View Profile)

Posted on 7/5/2008 3:30:55 AM | | Votes: 1   

LOL! for once, i'm boosting you, EL! (presuming you DO KNOW the vibe is a rebadged TOYOTA. :-))

— ChicaneShooter (View Profile)

Posted on 7/2/2008 5:57:14 AM | | Votes: 1   

"...It's becuse forign companys investing a little money here and taking huge prophits over sea's yea a forign automaker may give you a job (almost half of what the US maker would have paid you) so now yoy have Hundreds of thousands of folks with jobs that paid half as much as they used to make that works for a company that sends most of the money over sea's shrinking the American economy dramaticaly..... "

a few misconceptions here. 1) employees of foreign 'transplant' factories make CONSIDERABLY MORE than just 'half' what workers for u.s. companies earn. 2) only a FRACTION of u.s. workers are as OVERPAID as uaw workers, who shot themselves in the feet with their greedy demands, backed with strikes no company can exist with for very long. why do you think the former big 3 have SHUT DOWN u.s. factories, and built NEW ONES in mexico and canada? and import ever more product from asia?
3) japanese and german autoworkers EARN MORE in their homelands; one factor for the transplants. which ironically, are put despite RESISTANCE from homeland workers, who see "their jobs" being exported to u.s.!

further, the profits foreign companies earn here are ALMOST USELESS in their native lands. UNTIL converted to the local currencies. the companies ONLY get the benefit of dollars by SENDING THE DOLLARS BACK to the u.s., by building factories or making other investments. (or indirectly, thru tourists than buy the dollars for use here.)

dollar 'reserves' that accumulate in foreign countries, are like checks we write that ARE NEVER CASHED. only when the dollars come back to the u.s. for american goods, services, and factories, are they "cashed."

— ChicaneShooter (View Profile)

Posted on 7/5/2008 2:50:15 AM | | Votes: 1   

i don't deny things ARE beginning to look bad here, economically. but don't blame it all on americans' love affair with foreign cars.

MUCH GREATER FACTORS are at work. 1) high oil prices 2) the plummeting dollar 3) Dubya THINKING that the 'guns and butter' policies we've had since the vietnam era would work forever. IT DOES NOT! THE LONG RIDE IS OVER!

the war is DRAINING $1 TRILLION out of the u.s. economy. projections are it will cost $3 trillion before it's all over.

the u.s. has 'progressed' from spending more on the military than the next 14 countries, combined... to NOW spending more than the WHOLE rest of the world combined!

nearly all of history's great empires have fallen because the COST OF MAINTAINING and 'defending' the whole empire became unsustainable.

the american economic empire is on the verge of collapse. batten down the hatches, folks! get ready for a new DEPRESSION. (not just a namby-pamby Recession, which itself scares folks who don't wanna even hear the "R word.")

pay off all the debts you can, and get the GAS STINGIEST vehicle you can! even if it's a SCOOTER.
gas guzzlers are going the way of the dinosaurs. (it's only fitting, considering they SUCKED UP and PISSED AWAY more dino juice than other vehicles!)

— ChicaneShooter (View Profile)

Posted on 7/5/2008 3:08:38 AM | | Votes: 1   

Go GayMan?

— MercedesBenz00Z (View Profile)

Posted on 7/1/2008 11:27:36 PM | | Votes: -2   

what's interesting is that gm, toyota, and mercedes are all FULL LINE car companies, making everything from basic sedans, to limos, to trucks and suvs, to commercial vehicles.

until recently, gm had all this production spread out among a whole slew of brand names.

mb and to a lesser extent toyota, made ALL their vehicles under a SINGLE brand name.

mb now has their most basic econoboxes under the Smart brand; toyota expanded with lexus and scion.

— ChicaneShooter (View Profile)

Posted on 7/12/2008 3:53:18 AM | | Votes: 1